heart poison

Zhaobang Street, the easternmost part of Mingluo District, once had the largest shell production factory in the whole of Han Province.At the end of the last century, the artillery shell factory moved out of the main city and moved to the suburbs. The workers, equipment, and ammunition were withdrawn in batches, and the factory buildings were demolished, but the air-raid shelters used to store ammunition remained.

Those air-raid shelters were not built by the artillery shell factory, but decades ago, people dug them day and night in order to avoid air raids during the war.In peacetime, the air-raid shelter lost its original function. In the 70s, after the shell factory was established, four nearby air-raid shelters were requisitioned and included in the factory area for use as warehouses.

With the continuous development of the city, Mingluo District has become a place where rich people live in Luocheng. The villas in the central area are connected to each other, and the supporting facilities are of a very high standard. However, Zhaobeng Street, which is already on the edge, is even more marginalized. It became an ugly piece of psoriasis in Mingluo District.Today, many people living in Mingluo District have either never heard of Zhaobang Street, or they think that Zhaobang Street is not part of the main city, but at most a fringe of urban and rural areas.

Due to policy reasons, Zhaobeng Street has never been included in the scope of the main city renovation. The air-raid shelters and old buildings are still there, but the people who live there have changed from group to group.

The service industry in Mingluo District is developed and requires a lot of manpower.Most of the practitioners in these service industries are foreigners, and they definitely cannot afford the sky-high prices of hardcover houses in Mingluo District.The dilapidated old houses in Fukang District in the west are affordable, but the two districts are one east and the other west. Although they are connected by subway, it is really inconvenient to commute every day.

Therefore, many people choose to live in Zhaobeng Street, which is considered by the rich to be at the fringe of urban and rural areas.

Chen Guangxiao is 33 years old this year. He brought his wife He Xiaomiao to work in Los Angeles from the countryside for more than ten years.They have no education, they didn't go to school after graduating from junior high school, and when they first arrived in Los Angeles, they could only work as waiters in restaurants and massage at football clubs. After saving some money, they started to be their own bosses. At first, they were in Fukang District. Set up a small storefront, selling crispy meat pancakes during the day and barbecue at night.Five years ago, Chen Guangxiao received an order from Mingluo District in the middle of the night, and the other party gave him 1000 yuan directly, asking him to send the spicy roasted frog there no matter what.He took a trip, only to find that there are very few restaurants open until late at night in Mingluo District, and there are no "fly restaurants" that can be seen everywhere in other districts.

Together, Chen Guangxiao and He Xiaomiao quickly knocked down the small storefronts in Fukang District, pieced things together, and opened a barbecue restaurant in Mingluo District that is only open at night. The business is beyond imagination.

But no matter how good the business is, it is still a small business.Even if Chen Guangxiao was so busy that he could only sleep for three hours a day, he still couldn't rent a decent house for his wife and daughter in Mingluo District, where land is very expensive.For five years, they lived in an old house on Zhaobeng Street.

Chen Guangxiao and He Xiaomiao's daughter, Chen Yun, is 10 years old. She is beautiful and cute, has a cheerful personality and is good at telling jokes.The neighbors said that this girl might become a star when she grows up.

Chen Guangxiao was delighted when he heard it, and after discussing with He Xiaomiao, he paid a sum of money and enrolled Chen Yun in a children's recitation class in an after-school tutoring institution, paving the way for his daughter's future early.

Chen Yun performed well in the recitation class, and her grades in school were good. Every time Chen Guangxiao took time to pick her up from school, he was full of joy, feeling that a bright future was beckoning to his daughter.

And when his daughter develops, he and his wife will naturally follow suit.

However, yesterday, Chen Yun suddenly disappeared without warning.

The torrential rain poured down, Chen Guangxiao and He Xiaomiao searched schools, reading classes, and everyone they knew, but they couldn't find Chen Yun's whereabouts. Finally, they rushed to Zhaobeng Street Police Station to call the police. Said: "Why is there another girl missing?"

The word "again" was like a dull hammer, hitting Chen Guangxiao's head heavily. He looked at the policeman in fear, "Also, there are still girls missing?"

The police did not answer him directly, only saying that the police will do their best to find him.

A day passed, and there was still no news from Chen Yun.Chen Guangxiao didn't close his eyes all day and all night, and searched all the places he could think of, but still found nothing.And He Xiaomiao was already crying in despair—she watched a lot of legal programs when she was free, and knew that once a girl disappeared, she was very likely to be raped, and there were many cases of rape first and then murder, and Chen Yun was so beautiful... …

Chen Guangxiao couldn't comfort his wife, so he had to rush to the police station again, eager to hear the good news.

But what the police said made his vision go dark.

"We are trying to contact you." The policeman who recorded the case the day before had a solemn expression. "Just now I received a report that someone found a dead girl in the abandoned air-raid shelter of the artillery shell factory."

The heavy rain caused traffic jams. Hua Chong and others rushed from Luoguan Village to Luocheng. They were blocked for more than ten kilometers outside the toll booth. It was early morning when they arrived at the scene.

A warning tape was drawn outside the air-raid shelter. The ground was covered with mud that had been churned up by the rain. The cave was illuminated like daylight by searchlights. The girl had already been taken back to the City Bureau for an autopsy. A diagram of the location of the corpse was marked with a white line on the ground.

"Flower Team!" Qu Zhi hurried over in a raincoat, his face full of impatience, "If you don't come back, Team Chen will handle the case himself!"

There are many homicide and disappearance cases in big cities every year, and not every case will be handed over to the serious crime team.Cases such as the murder of ordinary migrant workers and robbery to death are directly solved by the criminal investigation squadrons of each sub-bureau; those that are more difficult or of a special nature are transferred to the city bureau to be solved by the ordinary team of the criminal investigation detachment; those with the greatest social impact and the most difficult to solve It was the turn of the serious crime team.

The murder of a girl is not necessarily difficult to solve, but the impact is extremely bad. It will not only make thousands of parents panic, but also easily lead to imitation, so it must be solved as soon as possible.

Hua Chong glanced at the mud covered Qu Zhi's feet, then looked at the dirt road outside that was almost drenched into a river of mud, frowned, and asked, "Did the Trace Inspection Department not extract any suspicious footprints?"

"With such a heavy rain, the footprints outside have been washed away long ago!" Qu Zhi wiped the rain from his face, "There are inside, but they have been compared, and the fresh footprints are all left by the reporter."

Hua Chong looked at the distance between the white line and the entrance of the cave, "If this is just the scene of throwing the corpse, not the first scene, the murderer doesn't have to go into the air-raid shelter and just throw the corpse directly. If he is strong enough, he can also throw it where the corpse is. At that time the corpse How is the situation? What posture? Did Xu Kan say what the cause of death was?"

"You let me breathe a sigh of relief. I just went to see the reporter. They are all bastard students from a nearby middle school. They almost got into a fight with their family members." Qu Zhi said panting.

"Family?" Liu Zhiqin said, "Has the source of the corpse been identified?"

"Not yet, I'm looking for missing persons." Qu Zhi's breath was unsteady, obviously exhausted, "This matter may not be simple. When the Zhaobeng Street Police Station received a report call, there was a man in the station who couldn't find his daughter." My father, named Chen Guangxiao, was the one who called the police yesterday. The man was shocked on the spot, thinking that the victim was his daughter, and the police station also thought it might be his daughter."

Liu Zhiqin asked: "Isn't it the result?"

"I've identified the body, no, his daughter is still missing." Qu Zhi said, "But there is something wrong with this matter. He knew several middle school students who reported the crime. They must have plotted against their daughter for a long time. They must have taken her daughter away." They hid it and said that the girl who was killed was killed by them."

After Hua Chong listened, his expression was gloomy, and he said to himself: "Hunzi middle school student, little girl..."

Liu Zhiqin knew what he was thinking as soon as he heard it, and his face became ugly.

Qu Zhi took out a tablet and tapped it twice, "This is a photo of the scene, taken by the Trace Inspection Department, please take a look first. Originally, I wanted to wait for you to come back before transferring the corpse, but Team Chen said no, immediately There's nothing I can do about autopsy."

Hua Chong took it with a heavy tone, "It's okay, as long as there are photos."

After speaking, he squatted beside the white line and began to flip through the photos.

The girl's posture is a bit strange, she is lying on her stomach, her face is turned to the right, her hands are sticking to her side, and her legs are also close together.

The reason why it is strange is that there are very few corpses that "lie" so neatly.

Hua Chong continued to scroll down.

The girl is wearing a red and white dress.Because muddy water poured into the air-raid shelter, the fabric of the clothes has been soiled.She didn't wear shoes, and her legs and feet were covered with knee-length "heap socks", the soles of her feet were soaked in muddy water, her skirt was lifted up, and her legs were almost completely exposed.

Hua Chong zoomed in on the photo, carefully looked at the flaky corpse spots, and said, "She was thrown here about a day and a half after her death."

Liu Zhiqin took the tablet and nodded: "The corpse spots are accumulated on the back of the legs, and they have stabilized and will not transfer. When the corpse was thrown away, the time to death will not be less than 24 hours. Before being thrown here, she was lying on her back .”

"Judging from the photos, the rigor stiffness has been relieved. I don't know how far the green corpse has developed." Hua Chong stood up, walked around the white line, and came to the entrance of the cave again.It was still pouring rain outside, so he walked straight into the rain without an umbrella or a raincoat.

Qu Zhi yelled "Flower Team", Liu Zhiqin picked up the umbrella standing by the cave wall, opened it hastily, and walked over.

The umbrella can barely stop the rain, but it is better than nothing. Hua Chong stood beside Liu Zhiqin and made a motion of throwing it in. "The murderer stands in this position, or a little further away, and puts the victim face down. Throwing it in. At that time, the rigors should not be completely relieved, so her hands and legs basically did not spread to the two sides due to the throwing action, so now it looks like this lying posture."

Qu Zhi also stood outside the entrance of the cave, gestured twice, and cursed: "This damn rain, if there is no rain, we can at least find valuable footprints!"

Liu Zhiqin tilted the umbrella towards Hua Chong, and most of his body was wet, "The murderer threw the body here precisely because of the rain."

"That's right." Hua Chong stepped on the muddy ground under his feet and analyzed: "The murderer has stepped on here and knows at least two things: First, as long as there is a heavy rain, all traces outside the air-raid shelter will be washed away ;Second, very few people will come here, and the cave is dark, even if you go close, as long as you don't go in and look, you won't find the corpse thrown in it. As long as there is a heavy rain, 'him' will be washed away The footprints or ruts left outside the cave, even if someone later finds the body and calls the police, it is difficult for 'he' to expose. This is why 'he' did not throw the body away immediately after the murder - 'he' took the victim Put it somewhere and wait for the rain to fall, and before it rains, throw the victim in the hole."

"It has been raining for two days and two nights." Qu Zhi said, "Did the murderer throw away the body two days ago?"

"It's very possible." Hua Chong returned to the air-raid shelter, took the tablet and looked at it for a while, with a very bad feeling in his heart, and ordered with a gloomy face: "Qu Zhi, don't let those middle school students who called the police leave. Come to the Municipal Bureau. Brother Xiaoliu, let's go back and wait for the autopsy report."

Qu Zhi showed embarrassment, "Flower Team, you should go to the police station with me. I might not be able to handle it by myself."

The Zhaobeng Street Police Station dealt most with juvenile fights and trivial family disputes.

There is a middle school that is well-known throughout the city, called Luocheng No. [-] Middle School.Other middle schools are famous, either because of their strong teachers, who can train many students who are admitted to Qingbei every year, or because they take the line of quality education, and all the students "have unique skills" and lead the way.Eleventh Middle School is famous because it gathers a bunch of ignorant bastards, its average score ranks second to last among all middle schools, and its record of group fights is known as the first in the province.

In the eyes of many people, the students of Eleventh Middle School are equivalent to scum. To put it mildly, they are called bastards, and to put it bluntly, they are scum.

These bastards have been causing trouble all day long, and the leaders are the "regular customers" of the Zhaobeng Street Police Station.

The policemen are used to dealing with troublemakers and quarreling residents, and they have their own way of resolving disputes, but when faced with disappearance and murder cases, they are completely panicked.Fortunately, the criminal police from the Mingluo District Public Security Bureau have arrived, and the elites from the City Bureau's serious crime team have also rushed to the scene. The only thing they need to do is to appease the agitated Chen Guangxiao.

Although the girl in the air-raid shelter was not his daughter Chen Yun, Chen Guangxiao was still crying like crazy.In that dead girl, he seemed to have seen Chen Yun's fate.

Even more excited than Chen Guangxiao were the four students of the eleventh middle school who were still taking notes on the report.Chen Guangxiao knew them and thought they were murderers who pretended to be informers.

The tall boy with dyed golden red hair is Zhen Qin, a leader of the gangsters in the eleventh middle school. He has no parents to discipline him. It is said that there is only one old grandfather in his family.Another boy with a lot of earrings is Li Xiu, who has been walking along Zhaobeng Street with Zhen Qin for a long time.The other two are also bastards, probably their brothers.

Chen Guangxiao was impressed with them because they had been to his shop several times.He Xiaomiao said that they were always staring at Chen Yun.

Now that Chen Yun was missing, and the gang claimed to have found the girl's body in the air-raid shelter, he couldn't help but think the worst.

Did they kill the girl, throw it in a bomb shelter, and call the police pretending to be innocent?What about your own daughter?Was it also killed by them?

Just now, he lost control of his emotions and yelled out his guess. If the police hadn't stopped him, Zhen Qin might have beaten him to death.Now, the police station is full of voices, and everyone is arguing. He has a splitting headache and grief from the heart, squatting on the ground covering his head and crying.

After a while, three people without police uniforms entered the gate not far away. He had seen one of them before and heard that he was a policeman sent by the city bureau. , the other party must be a policeman who can talk.

He stood up quickly, and walked away while wiping his tears, wanting to ask the other party to help find his daughter.

Zhen Qin was arguing with the police at the police station, and his voice could be heard halfway down the hallway: "What do you mean? We found the body and reported it with good intentions, but now we are labeled as a murderer? Fuck, that psycho said Why do you just believe it? Why don’t you fucking believe what I say? I’ll leave it here—that man and his wife are scumbags, check it out yourself and see if I’ve lied to you!”

Hua Chong pushed open the door and glanced coldly.I don't know if he opened the door too loudly, but the people inside suddenly stopped talking and all looked at him.He turned his head and asked Qu Zhi: "Is that them? Are they all there?"

"It's all there." Qu Zhi said.

Hua Chong nodded, "Take them all back."

Zhen Qin glared, "Who are you? Where are you taking us?"

"Police, City Bureau." Hua Chong said concisely.

"Why?" Zhen Qin rushed forward as he spoke, trying to grab Hua Chong's collar, "You policemen..."

Hua Chong flashed lightly, slashed left and right with his hands, opened Zhen Qin's hands, and at the same time, stepped forward with his right foot and hooked, easily restraining the opponent.

Zhen Qin was used to fighting, and had never been captured so easily. He was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to stare blankly at Hua Chong.

Hua Chong patted him on the back, pushed him outside.Li Xiu and the others were dumbfounded. Seeing Zhen Qin being escorted away, they looked at each other and had no choice but to follow.

Hua Chong handed the four of them to Qu Zhi, and when he left, he took Chen Guangxiao, who was at a loss, with him.

Xu Kan has completed the autopsy, but has not had time to issue a report.Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin went directly to the forensic workshop, put on isolation suits, and observed the corpse at close range.

The information provided by the live photos is limited, but it is much more intuitive to look at the anatomy table.

The girl's left cheek and limbs had abrasions of varying degrees, but none of these abrasions had any response to life, and it can be concluded that they were caused after death.The corpse green on the abdomen is already obvious, the rigor has completely relieved, and the corpse has entered the early stage of decay.

"She died four days ago, that is, on August 8." Xu Kan was wearing a mask, and his voice sounded a little buzzing, "The plaques accumulated on the back in a stable sheet. I went to the scene and the murderer should have It was two days ago, when the rain had not completely fallen, she was thrown from the door of the air-raid shelter, and the scars on her face and limbs were caused during the throwing process."

Hua Chong looked at the girl's lifeless pale skin, and frowned, "What is the cause of death?"

Xu Kan didn't answer immediately, and seemed to be hesitating.

Hua Chong raised his eyes, "Have you found out yet?"

There were no obvious fatal injuries to the girl's body, but now that an autopsy has been completed, there is no reason why the cause of her death could not be found.

"Pathological examination will take time." Xu Kan said: "My preliminary judgment is that she died of acute renal failure caused by sevoflurane overdose."

"Sevoflurane overdose?" Hua Chong's nerves tensed all of a sudden, "Are you sure it's sevoflurane?"

"Ba丨丨nine is not far from ten, and the results of the pathological examination will be available in a while." Xu Kan sighed, "I didn't expect it to be sevoflurane either."

"Is it the anesthetic commonly used in general anesthesia surgery?" Liu Zhiqin joined the discussion, "Then the nature of this case may change."

"Yes, from harming girls to organ trading." Xu Kan said: "There are only two common uses of sevoflurane now. One is to perform surgery in regular hospitals, and the other is to harvest organs from living people in illegal transactions for supply. Transplantation. Anesthesiologists in hospitals are the most sought-after occupations, and they have very high technical requirements, because medical accidents may occur if the dosage is not well controlled. In the black market, criminals only take organs, regardless of the life and death of the organ recipients , used to increase the dose. If it is an adult in good health, it may be able to survive, but if it is a child with poor physical function..."

Xu Kan's voice sank, "Maybe before the organ harvesting, he died due to various sudden symptoms. Acute renal failure is just one of the more serious conditions."

"The murderer found out that the operation failed, the organs could not be removed, and the person died, so he planned to throw the body away." Hua Chong said while thinking, "But there is one thing that I think is very strange—the organ trade is usually done on the black market. Humans have a system for dealing with accidents, and they probably wouldn't dump bodies in bomb shelters."

"I also think this is illogical." Xu Kan said: "But the deceased had no other injuries. I have checked her genitals, vagina, and mouth. There is no sign of being violated, and the murderer did not leave any traces of sperm on her body.丨Liquid, saliva, urine. Many of the murders of girls are related to sex. We have dealt with similar cases in the past. When Team Chen notified me to appear on the scene, I thought the victim’s health would be very bad, but after the inspection, he I know, her lower body is very clean and has never been violated."

Hua Chong pondered for a moment, then asked again: "Have you confirmed your identity?"

"It should be soon." Xu Kan said: "The DNA comparison and missing person investigation have already started before the autopsy, and there will definitely be results before dawn."

Before dawn, the results of the two time-consuming tests came out.

The deceased was Wang Xiangmei, 9 years old, and died of acute renal failure caused by a severe overdose of sevoflurane.Last week, her parents went to the Chulin Street Police Station in Changlu District to call the police, saying that their daughter was missing. The police station immediately launched an investigation and reported it to the sub-bureau, but it was a pity that she could not be rescued in the end.

Hua Chong immediately convened a meeting of the serious crime team, technical investigation team, trace inspection department and other departments.Everyone was surprised to learn that the missing girl's death was linked to sevoflurane.

This at least shows that organ traffickers have reached out to children.Recently, the Zhaobeng Street Police Station alone has received two reports of missing children. One is Chen Yun and the other is Zhang Dandan. They are both 10 years old. They are girls like Wang Xiangmei. Have they also been murdered?

"Sevoflurane is an important surgical drug, and the channel control is very strict, but it does not rule out that someone is trading in private. Qu Zhi, you contact the informants in various hospitals. We have to dig out the illegal trading channels of sevoflurane first. Come out." Hua Chong had a cup of steaming espresso in his hand, but he didn't bother to drink it, "Feng Hao, sort out the recent cases of missing children, what should be visited, and what should be cooperated with the branch office, so that the branch office Both the police and the police station are paying attention. Yuan Hao, your technical investigation team..."

Before the words finished, a criminal policeman walked quickly to Hua Chong, bowed his head and said, "Hua Dui, those people you brought back beat Chen Guangxiao."

"Fuck!" Hua Chong cursed.Liu Zhiqin immediately stood up, pressed his shoulder, and said gently and reliably: "You continue to assign tasks, and I will handle them."